Peter Biskind's movie history 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls' was a classic. His new TV history, 'Pandora's Box,' is not. It's rarely insightful, but never boring
Like a frenzied point guard trying to jack up his assist numbers, Peter Biskind needs to dish. A little innuendo over here. A caustic quote over there. And anonymous sources. Lots and lots of anonymous sources. More than once in “Pandora’s Box,” his sprinting overview of the 21st-century cable-and-streaming revolution, Biskind actually quotes other people’s anonymous sources . It often feels as if Biskind trusts people more when they don’t go on the record.
In this sense he is perfect for the go-go online age he covers here. And yet. Biskind is just about incapable of being boring, and “Pandora’s Box” skims along with snarky vigor. He has a talent for puncturing and petting egos at the same time, and if he depicts the executives featured here, including HBO’s Richard Plepler, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, FX’s John Landgraf and Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, as grown-up kids in a golden sandbox, it’s because that’s how they often seem to act.
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